I really can't see how that would work in practise. I built my scope with a mirror that is accurate to 1/8th the wavelength of yellow light. If you look into a pool of Mercury its not a great mirror when its in a bowl - so why would it get better when its spun? Still if they can crack it then good luck to them - but plasma spraying of aluminium with a silicon layer on top is much safer and far more environmentally friendly IMHO.
Strikes me that the rumour above could just be that MS are developing Office for MacOSX. Under Darwin not Carbon.
No big deal - unless you Linux guys have a problem with BSD...
Slainte
Trull
Thinking sideways as usual - why not invest in a GIS to run your camera with - and make it a goodie that can use wavelet compression to reduce the images to 1/20th of the size.
Real techies will get in touch with MrSID!
I spose a word with www.microimages.com for TNTmips (runs on Linux/Win/Mac/sun...) may prove to be productive.
Slainte
Torc
This so-called news was old hat when the NewScientist did a feature on it about 10 years ago
The main gist was that the newer surface mount ICs would survive with relatively little modification - but no humans/live multicellular organisms above that of a flea would survive. Not that that is a particular problem if you are launching another sat.
Mind you I think that the biggest snag was successfully evacuating the cannon to avoid those ultra-mach type problems the fluid mechanics guys (and gals!) really like to get their teeth into.
One final comment - if you think that Concorde was loud.....
* Apple provides value added solutions for people who's time is expensive. (so that's me sorted!)
* IBM is reportedly going to be putting out CHRP motherboards c/w G4 chips for the ubergeeks to play with (and show off what great things are possible under LinuxPPC - or whatever OS is chosen). (so that's the geeks sorted!)
If you ask me the above is a pretty damn cunning way of getting the real PC wizards to get behind the G4 chips - whilst not endangering Apple's value added business with people who have better things to do with their time than having to muck about with a M$ box.
Apple needs the enthusiasm of the corporate IS managers - who will only be persuaded that PPC is fast when they see Slashdot-peoples' scorched test results coming through - to evangelise their product to the masses.
Slashdot Mirror
I really can't see how that would work in practise. I built my scope with a mirror that is accurate to 1/8th the wavelength of yellow light. If you look into a pool of Mercury its not a great mirror when its in a bowl - so why would it get better when its spun?
Still if they can crack it then good luck to them - but plasma spraying of aluminium with a silicon layer on top is much safer and far more environmentally friendly IMHO.
Clear Skies
Torc
oooargh hhaaa um hu roaaarrr s s ffff roadrhhgh ghf!
But no worse than MSNBC surely?
Clear Skies
Torc
Sun themselves are quite happy - but I don't think they will stay at No 1 in the Unix shipping stakes - after MacOSX in Jan 01. Slainte Trull
Strikes me that the rumour above could just be that MS are developing Office for MacOSX. Under Darwin not Carbon. No big deal - unless you Linux guys have a problem with BSD... Slainte Trull
Thinking sideways as usual - why not invest in a GIS to run your camera with - and make it a goodie that can use wavelet compression to reduce the images to 1/20th of the size. Real techies will get in touch with MrSID! I spose a word with www.microimages.com for TNTmips (runs on Linux/Win/Mac/sun...) may prove to be productive. Slainte Torc
Linux/Intel the clear leader?
You surely meant linux/PPC the clear leader if you were talking about pure performance per watt?
Slainte TorcOh come on!
This so-called news was old hat when the NewScientist did a feature on it about 10 years ago
The main gist was that the newer surface mount ICs would survive with relatively little modification - but no humans/live multicellular organisms above that of a flea would survive. Not that that is a particular problem if you are launching another sat.
Mind you I think that the biggest snag was successfully evacuating the cannon to avoid those ultra-mach type problems the fluid mechanics guys (and gals!) really like to get their teeth into.
One final comment - if you think that Concorde was loud.....
Slainte mhath
Torcuill
* IBM is reportedly going to be putting out CHRP motherboards c/w G4 chips for the ubergeeks to play with (and show off what great things are possible under LinuxPPC - or whatever OS is chosen). (so that's the geeks sorted!)
If you ask me the above is a pretty damn cunning way of getting the real PC wizards to get behind the G4 chips - whilst not endangering Apple's value added business with people who have better things to do with their time than having to muck about with a M$ box.
Apple needs the enthusiasm of the corporate IS managers - who will only be persuaded that PPC is fast when they see Slashdot-peoples' scorched test results coming through - to evangelise their product to the masses.
Slainte mhath.
T